By Dr Swami Shankardev and originally published on Big Shakti.com Did you know that chronic, unresolved stress can create an imbalance between the self-aware, rational, decision making, and problem-solving parts of your brain (the pre-frontal cortex) and the emotion and memory controlling parts of your brain (the amygdala and hippocampus)? Long-term (chronic) stress alters your…

By Dr Shaun Matthews Discover 7 ways to improve your digestion using the holistic science of Ayurveda. Managing when we eat, how we eat and how we approach our meal times. 1. Avoid eating a heavy evening meal. Ayurveda advocates making lunch our main meal when our digestive fire is at its strongest. Once we…

By Dr Shaun Matthews Ayurveda, India’s traditional system of healing, places good digestion at the very heart of its approach to creating healthy immune system functioning and in the promotion of wellbeing. Ayurveda uses simple naturalistic metaphors to understand the process of digestion, metaphors which, in my experience, western medical science is still struggling to…

In the throes of insomnia, I tried everything I could to get a good night’s sleep. In a desperate bid for sound sleep, I went mad on the problem solving, keeping a daily spreadsheet of every lifestyle factor and sleep hygiene rule I could think of, tracking what was helping and what was hindering a…

Not sleeping well can have a significant impact on how we function day to day. Mindfulness expert Rachel Long shares with us 3 ways Mindfulness can help for a better night’s sleep. 1. Mindfulness helps alleviate stress and hyper arousal Poor sleep is often due to stress and nervous system arousal. The nervous system becomes…